A happy Mumbai Indians’ head coach Mahela Jayawardene lauded his bowling assault for executing their plans effectively and expressed particular admiration for debutant left-arm spinner Kumar Kartikeya Singh’s figures of 1/19 in his IPL debut.

On Saturday, Mumbai broke their eight-match shedding streak once they defeated Rajasthan Royals by 5 wickets on the D.Y Patil Stadium. On a sticky, two-paced pitch, Mumbai’s bowlers restricted Rajasthan to 158/6 after which chased down the full with 4 balls to spare to register their first win of IPL 2022.

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“I feel our bowling execution was excellent — we saved Buttler away for lengthy durations of time. Young Kartikeya was good — he bowled very effectively in his first recreation, he confirmed lots of character and keenness. We have seen him within the nets for a month and felt it was good to offer him the chance” stated Jayawardene in a video posted by the franchise on Sunday.

Jayawardene was full of praise for the team, who he felt rode through a tough phase with a good attitude before getting their first win of the tournament.

“It was a good win after eight games, we got the wrong end of the stick in a few games so it’s good to have that first win. I am very proud of the boys — they worked really hard. Even though we were losing matches, we never went away from our processes, practice and preparation. The attitude and passion they showed on the first day of training was there yesterday as well.”

Despite Mumbai shedding Rohit Sharma and Ishan Kishan within the first six overs, Suryakumar Yadav led the chase with a 39-ball 51 and was supported effectively by 35 from Tilak Varma and Tim David blasting an unbeaten nine-ball 20 on a difficult pitch.

“We had an excellent begin with Ishan, he went laborious at them and gave us momentum. Then Surya and Tilak had been cool and calm in that massive partnership that we wanted. We had a couple of hiccups on the finish however Timmy (David) and Polly after which Dan completed it off. There remains to be room to enhance for us and we’re getting there,” concluded Jayawardene.

Mumbai’s next match in the tournament will be against table-toppers Gujarat Titans on Friday at Brabourne Stadium.

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